Intellectual humility, or the ability to recognize that the things we believe in might be wrong. It’s an essential trait, but a rare one. Dunning-Kruger effect is one example of how: We often feel more confident about a skill or topic than we really should. But at the same time, we’re often unaware of our overconfidence. principle of naive realism. [It means that] even though your belief about the way the world just seems so compelling or so self-evident, it doesn’t mean that it really is [true]. (Professor David Dunning)
Illusory superiority (also known as the above-average effect, superiority bias, leniency error, sense of relative superiority, primus inter pares effect, and the Lake Wobegon effect) is primarily a term used in social science which indicates an individual who has a belief that they are somehow inherently superior to others. They have the tendency to overestimate their own capabilities in relation to the abilities of others. (Scientific American)
Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri graduated from Stanford and Yale. Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas graduated from Princeton and Harvard. Republican Ron DeSantis of Florida graduated from Yale and Princeton. An impressive list of schools, many people would assert, and the consideration that parrots the same assumption would naturally be that those graduating from these Ivy League Universities are at least on the high end of an IQ chart. All three men, as I see it are smart enough to understand the pitfalls of the PLETHORA of PEONS suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect, and smart enough to take advantage of the racist, bigoted, head up your own ass machinations caused by dangerously low INTELLECT, and low MORAL and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. Which for me makes all three of these men even more dangerous than TRUMP. TRUMP I believe is a true example of the Dunning-Kruger effect gone terribly bad!
It seems the politics of running for President embracing an endorsement from the MAGA/AMERICAN NAZI PARTY/FOX ANARCHIST CROWD and of course the way too many Anti-Science/Anti Medicine and Anti History voting as Republicans, HAS become the motto of “HOW SMART ARE YOU TO ACT DUMB ENOUGH TO HAVE THE MOST STUPID AND BIGOTED OF PEOPLE VOTE FOR YOU! So far the tie for aiming for the bottom of the barrel has Hawley, Cruz, and DeSantis winning---and the rest of America losing!
